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Subject:	Re: New Product Announcement - 10152
Newsgroups:	lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general
Date:	Thu, 27 May 2004 17:14:58 GMT
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> 2. TAXES And all this doesn't take into account other taxes Americans pay yearly. * personal property tax * vehicle tax * sin tax (cigs, alcohol, and other "non-necessary things) * gasoline tax (30-40 cents per gallon?) * Medicaire (not a tax) * Social Security (not a tax) * Federal Income Tax (don't get me started!!!) * State Income Tax Health care options and prices in America suck in my opinion. Social Security benifits may not be around when I reach age 65 (or older). Federal income tax was a "temporary" supplimental way to fund WW2. Apparently the US goverment forgot that that war has been over for 60 years. Do other countries have such a large number of required things they must pay?

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		Re: New Product Announcement - 10152
(...) I'd encourage this subthread to migrate away from the current groups and into off-topic.debate if it goes too much further into comparative analysis of countries... I XFUT there already. (21 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: New Product Announcement - 10152
(...) Well, your list matches mine here in Germany, with two notable exceptions: We pay about EUR1.20 (US$1.44) per liter gasoline, of which EUR0.90 to 0.95 are taxes. With 4.55 liter being a gallon, and the Euro at about US$1.20 we pay roughly US$5 (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)

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		Re: New Product Announcement - 10152
<snip> (...) Benjamin, I believe that the answer is (at least) twofold: 1. LEGO's way of setting prices for different markets is very complex (I believe that Jake has stated this before), and the price only partially depends on what the given market (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)

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